Canadian Anglicanism is in danger of complete and total
disintegration. The leadership of the Anglican Church of Canada has been making
great efforts over the past thirty years to bring the Church in line with its
cultural surroundings. There has been a concerted effort to “modernise” the
Church so that it can truly “speak to today’s society” and relate to the
current cultural circumstance.

In the minds of the revisionist
liberal leadership this has often meant watering down the elements of faith
that are difficult for, or even abhorrent to, modern educational and societal
principles. In a society where there is seen to be no absolute rights and
wrongs but merely relativistic goods, the theological perspective has been
consciously altered to reflect the same. And this has been done either with an
attempt to revise and rationalise the Holy Word of God (The Holy Bible) or to
put aside the obvious Word of God seen in both Natural Law and Theological
Understanding of God’s Law in favour of the prevailing “experience” of the
cultural setting.

WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO THE CHURCH?

The intellectually driven Church
in the developed nations has come under the influence of Satan and is being led
into heretical teachings that totally ignore the clear simple teachings of the
Holy Word of God. Of course, those who are in the revisionist liberal
leadership behind this drive to perversion will accuse the orthodox
conservative members of the Anglican Church of being unduly judgmental. In
their vision of inclusivity (that doesn’t include the orthodox conservatives),
unity (that doesn’t unite with the orthodox conservatives), and relativistic
views of right and wrong (that eliminates the adherence to absolute right and
wrong as seen in Holy Scripture held by the orthodox conservatives) it is not
acceptable that anyone should oppose their desire to meld the Church into the
multicultural milieu of what they see as the contemporary cultural situation.
Therefore, in the mind of the revisionist liberal leadership, they need to rid
the Church of these unreasonable and unlistening orthodox conservative Bible
Thumpers.

Thus, while attempting to deceive
the populace of the Church with their smiles and constant appeal to dialogue,
unity, and tolerance, the real agenda is to remake the Church into the likeness
of the world with a non-threatening fictitious Jesus as the poster boy. It
seems that they are unable to see the results of their efforts in relationship
to the areas where Orthodox Bible Believing Anglicanism is practiced. The
following statistical chart will show the results of the revisionist liberal
labours over the past 30 years as compared to those regions where orthodox
conservative faith is championed:

SOME INTERESTING

ANGLICAN STATISTICS

Province

1970

2000

% Change

Ghana

100000

236000

136.00

Kenya

582600

3100000

432.10

Nigeria

2914000

18000000

517.71

Rwanda

161899

700000

332.37

Sudan

300000

2200000

633.33

Uganda

1281000

8580000

569.79

ECUSA
(American)

3196000

2325000

-27.25

Britain

27659000

23983000

-13.29

Canada

1176000

784000

-33.33

There is no real need to comment
on these numbers. The moves of the revisionist liberals to bring the Church
into line with today’s world have failed miserably. The fine sounding platitudes
and the revision the clear Word of God have only served to make the Church so
much like the world that there is no attraction for anyone to turn away from
that world to find salvation in the Church. In fact, the concerted effort to
either remove or water down the sense of sin has made the message of Salvation
in Jesus Christ bringing the forgiveness of sin and new life in Christ upon the
repentant a meaningless concept. The revisionist liberal Church has no identity
outside of the world and no meaningfulness within the world.

Thus, it is not hard to
understand the downfall of the revisionist liberal led Anglican Church of
Canada in the light of the direction its leadership is taking it. The result of
their deceptive and undermining efforts is clearly seen above where the
Anglican Church of Canada has experienced the greatest percentage decline of
any of the developed world nations. Albeit ECUSA is not far behind and Britain
is nothing to write home about.

THE PRETENCE

Of course, this gradual
modification and degradation of the faith is all undertaken under the pretence
that what is being done is the result of the pure and true application of the
love of God or in a seemingly modernist or post-modernist light revealing that
Christ is “making all things new.” The party line is that God is doing new
things in Christ in today’s world.

The former premise considers
“love” to be the primary motivating force of God. After all, they proclaim, the
Bible does say that God is love. In this light, the teachings of Holy Writ are
all evaluated in the light of this “love of God.” And, any teachings of
Scripture that are not seen as “loving” are put aside and replaced by what
these enlightened human beings deign to be God’s love. Of course, in short, the
problem is that the concept of “love” is rationalised around the understanding
of humanity without the primacy of the term defined according to God and His
Divinely Inspired Holy Word. The “experience” of persons in the light of this
humanly defined love supersedes the Eternal teachings of the unchanging God of
Holy Scriptures. “Love” is defined as being “inclusive” of all regardless of
their lifestyles or beliefs seen under the illuminating light of God’s Word –
written and living. In their distorted view, a loving God will accept all
persons who use His Name even if they refuse to repent of sin and live the New
Life in Christ.

The concept of Christ continuing
in His work of “making all things new” is the result of humanistic
philosophical logic together with either the ignoring or the reinterpreting of
the teachings of God’s Holy Word. Under this tainted premise, it is claimed
that Jesus, in reprimanding the Scribes, Pharisees, and Hypocrites not only in
the St. Matthew 23 seven woes but also in other passages throughout the
Gospels, was doing new things. And Jesus is teaching new things when He
criticised the lawmakers for their misinterpretation of the Covenantal Laws.
The concept looses sight of the Malachi, Gospel, and Letter to the Hebrews
texts that proclaim God as being an unchanging God. The traditional
understanding the unchanging and consistent God of Holy Scripture who has
revealed Himself to humankind once and for all never contradicts Himself is
totally forgotten or ignored. The time-honoured means of discerning the ongoing
teachings of the Holy Spirit through comparing the same to the Holy Word of God
for contradiction of God’s unchanging Word have been totally ignored or revised
to allow experience and human philosophy to replace and/or supersede the
Divinely Inspired Holy Word of God.

THE WORD OF GOD

While appealing to Holy Scripture
as it clearly and simply reveals Almighty God and His Divine Word to humankind
is considered fundamentalist, primitive, superstitious, and unlearned by the
giants of so-called modern theological thought (save when their philosophy
seems to be supported in some misguided way), it is precisely where the true
Christian must go to find response to this devastating situation.

God has revealed Himself and His
purpose to humankind in His Creation. God created humankind to be a friend of
God – a being with whom God, in His Divine Will, desires to walk and talk with
in perfect communication. Man broke this communication in his sinfulness (a
concept that is not enjoyed by revisionist liberal theology of relativism) and
moved away from his Divine Creator.

In the Old Testament is seen
God’s loving and caring outreach to His special Creation through successive
Covenant whereby God called man back to Himself through Noah, Moses, and the
Prophets. But man continued in his own walk. Often he would pay lip service to
God while “interpreting” God’s Covenant according to His own wishes and
desires. And the Old Covenant reveals the many times when God had to place
checks and balances in place.

FINALLY, God spoke His last
Divine Word to humankind through His Son Jesus who revealed all God’s Glory to
humankind in the strongest form that humanity could perceive and continue to
live on this earth. Jesus clearly stated that His Divine purpose as Son of
God/Son of Man was not to replace the Old Testament but to FULFILL its
teachings and understandings along with providing THE WAY for humankind to
return to the Created Will and Divine Communication. Jesus strongly and
pointedly retained the concept of SIN and humankind’s need of Salvation through
His Substitutional Sacrifice on the Cross and the Victorious Power of the
Resurrection (God’s Divine Love fully and uniquely revealed in His Divine Son).

In His High Priestly Prayer
recorded in St. John 17 Jesus prays that the Father will protect His Disciples
with the Truth. He then defines the Truth as being the Word of God. And we see
this Word in the written form through the Divinely Inspired and Unalterable Holy
Scriptures together with the Living Word in Jesus Christ Who fulfills the
Written Word of God!

Throughout these Holy Scriptures
God defines His Oneness in Being and His Unchanging Nature and Will. In Malachi
He proclaims, “I, the Lord, do not change.” In the Synoptic Gospels Jesus
proclaims, “Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass
away.” And the writer to the Hebrews proclaims, “Jesus Christ is the same
yesterday, today, and tomorrow.”

Thus, the pure and firm
foundation of Almighty God (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit) is a strong pillar
upon which the understanding of life and its purpose can be clearly seen in all
ages. Our God does not sway in the wind with every humanly driven wind or
cultural deviation. Rather our God provides a firm platform from which we can
speak to nations and cultures throughout all time.

THE NEED FOR REFORMATION

Throughout Holy Scripture and
subsequent history is seen the constant need for the calling of God’s people back
into line with God’s Will. Such were the events of Noah and Moses. In this
latter case, God’s Law was given to the people in a clear and powerful manner.
And it is important for us to understand that God establishes the Covenant and
calls us to accept it. God’s Will is not a matter of humankind’s democratic
vote. In fact, in the time of Moses, those who took and followed the “vote”
were found to be building the Golden Calf to worship.

Jeremiah and Ezekiel both brought
resounding condemnations against the “Shepherds of Israel” who had undertaken
their own agenda and were ignoring God’s Will for His People that was supposed
to be transmitted and implemented through them. It was then that God said He
would abandon them and become the Shepherd of the People Himself. Hence came
the prophecy of The One True Good Shepherd – Jesus the Christ, the Promise of
God.

Jesus was constantly reproaching
the leadership of the day for their failure to truly follow the God they
purported to bring to the people. He called them “blind guides.” He accused
them of working for their own gain. He called them to task for collaborating
with political leadership to the detriment of spiritual leadership. He
admonished them for profiting from the sacrificial system instead of truly participating
in it. In short, they needed to be reformed or replaced – and the latter was
the end result. It was necessary to point back to the real and true purpose and
intention of Creation and the boundaries established therein as being the true
source of the abundant life that Jesus came to establish.

St. Paul was faced with human
driven corruption of the Gospel coming quickly upon the heels of the conversion
of the Gentiles. Those who wanted to maintain the teachings of man over the
unconditional Salvation of God in Jesus were perverting the pure teachings of
Salvation in Jesus Christ. St. Paul’s strong response in Galatians was to the
point of, “If anyone, even ourselves, teaches anything contrary to the Gospel
by which you were saved in Jesus Christ, let him be accursed!”

In 325AD there was a need to call
the Bishops of the Church from throughout the world into Council at Nicea to
consider the teachings of the Holy Scriptures concerning the person of Jesus. A
Priest named Arius had been teaching throughout Alexandrian territory that
Jesus was not truly divine. Hence, in their searching of Scripture the Divinity
of the Incarnate Son of God was clearly defined in the resultant Nicene Creed.
Arius was censured even though his teachings polluted the Church for some time
thereafter – and continue today in the heresies of the Jehovah’s Witnesses and
the Mormons. In fact, it is interesting in today’s world, to note that the
primary form of Christianity to which Mohammed was exposed prior to the
production of the Koran was this heresy of Arianism that denied the Divinity of
Jesus.

Throughout the history of the
Church both in the east and in the west there was need for successive
corrections. The most predominant rectification came in the 16th
Century Reformation period where the manmade elements of faith were straying
totally away from God’s Holy Word. Here is found, in all facets and forms of
the Great Reformation, a recalling to the primacy of the Holy Word of God. In
the English Reformation such primacy was clearly established in the 39 Articles
of Faith. Reason and Tradition were not thrown out. But, they were always seen
and evaluated under the cleansing light and judgment of Holy Scripture.

Now, not 500 years later, the
Church is being called to Reformation once again. The Church is experiencing
the convulsions of revisionist liberal attempts to establish as elements of
faith doctrines that ignore and/or attempt to repeal the clear teachings of the
Holy Scriptures. In doing so there is a concentrated attempt to place Holy
Scripture under the judgment of “reason and tradition” that are in turn
overseen and modified by the unreliable sensual element of the “experience” of
humanity. In other words God’s Divinely Inspired Word is to be judged by
sensually and culturally driven concepts of life.

Thus, once again, the Church is
in serious need of REFORM! And such reform will be found not in doing new
things but by renewing the vision of God’s Unalterable Word and applying the
same to the Church and to society. Romans 12 calls us to “not conform any
longer to the pattern of this world, but to be transformed by the renewing of
our minds.” This concept of REnewal is a return to the Holy Word
of God seen over and above the wiles of mankind. Colossians also warns us not
to be “taken captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on
human tradition and the basic principles of this world RATHER THAN ON
CHRIST.” Thus, our reformation is to be one that centres on the truth
of Holy Word of God – written and living – and not on the perverted principles
of human driven philosophy and cultural sway.